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First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its h...more

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We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.

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I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth ...more

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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

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There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happil...more

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And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. Yo...more

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I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

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He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on wit...more

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How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose ...more

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He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

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But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.